Lowe’s demands rejected by Jamaica Football
Federation
Jamaica international
Onandi Lowe (Photo: Kurt
Morris/Sporting Eagles)
by Gary Smith
for Caribbean Net News
Friday, May 20, 2005
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaican international Onandi Lowe has had his request for
a fee of £25,000 to play for his
national team rejected by the nation's Football Federation on Tuesday. According
to the Jamaica Observer, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president
Crenston Boxhill told the striker that the Federation could not meet his
demand, but is willing to listen to Lowe's future plans "I
told him we can't meet that demand, and further, that it is against the policy
of the federation," Boxhill told the Observer. He
added that: "he would be seeking audience with me to further discuss the
matter." Lowe was freed by a jury at
Northampton Crown Court in England on February 22 after he was charged with
smuggling more than £100,000 of crack cocaine into Britain. Three months
later the forward made a demand to the JFF and newly appointed head coach
Wendell Downswell to be compensated for the funds he spent on his legal case
which he said was close to £40,000. The
30-year-old hit-man was a key partner with the skillful Walter Boyd upfront in
Jamaica's "Road To France Campaign" in 1998, but has been and out of
the team since then for mainly disciplinary reasons. In
keeping with the nation's football governing body policy on drugs, Lowe was
suspended from the national team upon his arrest, but was given an invitation
to join the team by Boxhill and Downswell following the dismissal of charges . Lowe's
future with the national team his now left up to him. The Observer reported
that "his return to the national set-up is now dependent on his accepting
the policy decision of the local governing body." The
former Coventry and Rushden and Diamond striker is now a part of a
locally-based club - Arnett Gardens, where he scored in his season debut.
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